Would like to share my experience about the installation and configuration of Solution Manager 7.2 on SAP HANA SP12 ( MCOS)

As we all know, Solution Manager 7.2 is now based on Netweaver 7.4 and is no longer a Dual-Stack system.The split of functionalities between the ABAP and Java in 7.2 seems to be similar to 7.1, so the Java Stack mainly handles the communications with the various agents. Since the java stack keeps connections open to all the agents

Solman 7.2 supports up-to-date installations. The installation doesn’t have anything special than normal procedure the software DVDs must be downloaded manually but the maintenance planner will enable us to calculate and generate the stack file up to latest SP available in SMP directly without adding the system to SLD/LMDB

– Simply install the ABAP stack then the Java stack. The Java stack will use the ABAP stack for UME (User Management)

– Update the ABAP and Java systems to latest version using SUM

Our environment:

Operating system: RHEL 7.3

HDB Version: 1.00.122.03.1475845474

Solution Manager 7.2 SP05

ABAP SID – SMA

JAVA SID – SMJ

We are installing in distributed environment (Database is on one host, SAP application is another host)

SAP Media:

Download all the Solution Manager 7.2 software’s from Service Market Place and Install the Solution Manager 7.2 system

I am actually installing a new solman system right now. Have you considered using the new sapinst (SWPM SP20)? We had some trouble with the new browser based interface, because it needs the root password. With the old one, a sudo was enough.

One question, To connect your managed systems to Maintainance Planner (for generation of stack files), is it mandatory to connect managed systems to newly installed solution manager system and perform “support hub connectivity” in system preparation step of solution manager?

Yes, it is mandatory to perform the step ” “support hub connectivity” in system preparation step of solution manager. Going forward this will be only communication channel to sync system details from solution manager to SAP support portal.

“”Future SAP Solution Manager Support Packages will include incremental built-in functionalities based on the above. Functions will be migrated
to the new SAP Support Communication Channels, which will completely replace the current SAP OSS RFC communication model.””

Thank you for this blog. I have a question regarding JAVA stack installation using stack file. I have created SOLMAN SP5 (JAVA) stack file but after starting SWPM SP20 using stack file I see SAP NW 7.4 option not SOLMAN 7.2 SR1 option. Is this obvious/fine? In later screens also it prompts for NW 7.4 SR2 Java media, it doesn’t accept JAVA Component media which I downloaded with SOLMAN 7.2. Has anyone faced this issue?

Few other observations from my side. Surprisingly MP calculates SWPM (70SWPM) when planning a system SOLMAN 7.2 SR1 JAVA System. I tried running with 70SWPM also but that also gave me SAP NW 7.4 option to install. your provided OSS Note clears everything. For others…

Up-to-date Installation using STACK_CONFIGURATION_FILE does not match options in welcome screen

Symptom:

You called
sapinst SAPINST_STACK_XML=<your stack.xml>
but there are no options in the product.catalog file according to the information on the UI.

Solution

Check that you used the correct version of Software Provisioning Manager, which was generated and downloaded together with the Stack Configuration File. –> This is what I tried but wrong SWPM calculated (70SWPM)

For example: SAP NetWeaver 7.5 options are only in SWPM*.SAR, but NOT offered in 70SWPM*.SAR.